Alocasia × amazonica 'Venom' Variegated

Listed simply as 'Variegated' rather than under a specific Albo/Aurea name, trade convention for early-stage or mixed colour breaks on a cultivar young enough that named forms are still being distinguished. Alocasia × amazonica 'Venom' Variegated shares the same underlying form and growth habit as Alocasia × amazonica 'Venom' (shield-shaped with elongated, fang-like tip leaves on upright rhizomatous growth), with broad cream-white marbled variegation across the shield-shaped leaf without a strong colour bias toward either albo-white or aurea-gold.

Origin

No wild native range: variegated colour-break cultivar of Alocasia × amazonica 'Venom', bred by Mason Plants in South Korea (2019).

Classification

Genus

Alocasia

Family

Araceae

Type

Variegated

Growth habit

Upright rhizomatous bush

Form of

Alocasia × amazonica 'Venom'

Morphology

Leaf shape

Shield-shaped with elongated, fang-like tip

Leaf length

30–45 cm

Leaf width

15–25 cm

Petiole colour

Green

Venation

Broad pale silver-white bands along the midrib and main lateral veins

Texture

Matte, frosted silvery-green with darker green between the vein bands

Variegation

chimericVariegation caused by a cell mutation. Often produces high contrast but can be unstable and revert to all-green. cream-white marbled variegation, not sorted into a single named colour break

Growth habit

Upright rhizomatous